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For this issue, the contributors where invited to respond to questions related to a quote of a letter by Antonin Artaud:

“I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old magic, its essential spellbinding power, for its mysterious possibilities have been forgotten.”

The questions:

– Have “the mysterious possibilities of language” – of speech or otherwise – indeed been forgotten? If so, what is the quality of this loss? How does this loss sound?
– Is the magic of language still present? In what way\form? Can it be transmitted? How is it transmitted?
– Can a new language be created? Can a sacred language be created?

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Besides text and visual work, contributors can respond to these questions with a soundpoem.

All soundpoems will be uploaded on Bandcamp during february – april 2016, with a 4 day pause in between them – a physical release will follow.

The soundpoem „Lait Noir Du Matin“ is based on fragments of the poem “Todesfuge” by Paul Celan. It ends with “der Tod ist ein Meister aus Deutschland”. This is my statement for the guiltyness of my country for all those who lost their lives because of german weapons or the death-industry during Nazi-Germany.

Special thanks to Helmut & Max for their fantastic and inspiring work!

The vivacity of this entanglement,
has been embraced
with heart breath
remembrance
of the one we took together when we first met.
Since then covered in feverish letters,
handed over by glove covered hands,
touched with voices of enchantment
dreams for the infantile world.
A joyful mind voyage
in a time maze I would have sauntered in infinity.
Courteously begging for transcendence
From restless to courage
Courier, carry my wait
Fasten my feeble thought
yard the looming apostate
and give me back my self
I am a thrall in this cell

“composed and recorded at Quiet Cue, Berlin, Jan. 2016
edited room recordings of feedback modulations, played in correlation with Max Kuiper’s samples which triggered the feedback channels inside the mixing desk.
recorded with stereo microphone and asymmetrical speaker array.

Paradoxically, here, the ‘Language’ theme is not represented by any speech / vocal material (although I am frequently working with experimental audio processing of human speech.)

The transference is made to the aspect of feedback, being both a reaction/response to the other, and at the same time an autopoietic rendering within itself.”

Additional material, voice and treatment by Thorsten Soltau.
Recorded from February—March 2016 at Lichter Raum, Wilhelmshaven.

„O And I“

Slow waves of sounds are layered. Detuned timbres of the same loop. Different fluttering volume levels are creating a sheerness of human voices intoning the vowels „o“ and „i“.

„Orb Of Senses“

A mixture of different selections of the provided source material. Binaural filtering and frequency panning applied to various instances. Concrete sounds like a sewing machine (manipulated to resemble a shutter frame running film projector) webbed in. Two spoken texts were set aside to each other. Both spoken from memory as a part of an stream of consciousness experiment. Content of texts inspired by Antonin Artaud; both texts were treated to become distorted and inapprehensible creating a new language.

“Significant moments are the moments we remember most easily. These moments are the moments when we were/are most present, most awake. For me, these moments are mostly visual, not remembered in words, but as images. For me, sounds create background to allow the free association of images to occur without words. If there is a sacred language that exists, it is one without words.”